I remember the Tories who came through the War. Often raised on working country estates they took in other people's lives. In whatever setting the numbers of employees was larger then and communities around workplaces stable. Not the work silo of corporate finance. Despite assumed entitlement they had a sense of duty, integrity towards t…
I remember the Tories who came through the War. Often raised on working country estates they took in other people's lives. In whatever setting the numbers of employees was larger then and communities around workplaces stable. Not the work silo of corporate finance. Despite assumed entitlement they had a sense of duty, integrity towards those less privileged. The Conservative Party has become dominated by exceedingly narrowing wealth and life experience. Fanatical extremist ideology, populism and managerialism replacing a sense of duty and public service. I wonder if it has had its day as a serious democratic force while Labour, always a broader church, has survived to have a relevant future.
WWI and WWII proved that the best way to tackle inequality is to send men of all different stripes onto a battlefield. The upper class might have been officers and the lower classes the grunts but they all saw the horrors and they all saw each other die in the mud or the air.
I remember the Tories who came through the War. Often raised on working country estates they took in other people's lives. In whatever setting the numbers of employees was larger then and communities around workplaces stable. Not the work silo of corporate finance. Despite assumed entitlement they had a sense of duty, integrity towards those less privileged. The Conservative Party has become dominated by exceedingly narrowing wealth and life experience. Fanatical extremist ideology, populism and managerialism replacing a sense of duty and public service. I wonder if it has had its day as a serious democratic force while Labour, always a broader church, has survived to have a relevant future.
WWI and WWII proved that the best way to tackle inequality is to send men of all different stripes onto a battlefield. The upper class might have been officers and the lower classes the grunts but they all saw the horrors and they all saw each other die in the mud or the air.